About Mike North
I have a true passion for working with developers and teams to help them make the most of their chosen tools. As a self-described 'product guy who codes', I have a passion for improving team productivity, and getting features in the hands of users quickly and iteratively. My experience working with dozens of companies ranging from seed-stage startups to Fortune 500 giants has given me an opportunity to become a very effective teacher of developers and an excellent leadershop coach. Want to turn your senior engineers into technical leads? I can help!
Education
My educational background in a combination of product development, team leadership, engineering design & analysis and hard sciences provides me with a unique perspective on building software. In particular, I can span the gaps between the business, product development and engineering organizations within a company.
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Ph.D Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon (2005 - )
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B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon (2001 - 2005)
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B.S. Physics
Carnegie Mellon (2001 - 2005)
Experience
Over the past 15 years, I've held a broad range of roles, including 'Researcher', 'UX Expert', 'Technical Lead', 'Manager', 'Architect' and 'CTO'.
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Flight Gold
CEO
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Levanto Financial
CTO
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Modern Web UI
Organizer
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Front End Masters
Instructor
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Yahoo
UI Architect
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ImageQuix
Lead Engineer
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CD-Adapco
Senior Engineer
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Carnegie Mellon
Graduate Researcher
Programming
I am a true full-stack developer, with real-world experience building everything from high-performance C++ engineering simulation code, to highly-distributed chat systems, to mobile apps and some of the most complex Web UIs in the world.
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Objective-C
2 years
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Erlang
2 years
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Elixir
2 years
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Swift
3 years
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Ruby
6 years
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C++
8 years
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Java
10 years
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JavaScript
10 years